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Arrow wood

>> Hi, Does anyone know the proper name or anything about a shrub? tree?
commonly called Arrow wood in B.C.. I bought it at a plant sale but haven't
been able to find out any thing about it. 
Thanks Gerri

I found this at 
http://pathfinder.com/vg/TimeLife/CG/Books/E15/Html/E15076B.html

Virburnum dentatum (arrowwood)

It is easy to see why Indians used the stems of arrowwood as shafts for
their arrows. Mature plants may send curving branches 10 to 15 feet high,
but always have many straight young stems coming up fromground level. This
species has 2-inch clusters of tiny creamy white fertile flowers in early
summer, followed by dark blue berries in the early fall. Its shiny nearly
round 1 1/2- to 3-inch leaves are coarsely toothed and become red in the fall.

-John S.

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